CSPAN3 Drinking In The Antebellum Congress July 13, 2024
Dr. Balcerski yes. The congressional Temperance Society, in a way, is a reflection of a Larger Movement at this time in america, that is to say the temperance movement. It is almost a phenomenon to this Larger National movement. There was an Organization Called the american Temperance Society, which was founded in the 1820s with the goal to lessen the consumption of alcohol. They were not yet committed to full abstinence or tea totaling. So that the congressional Temperance Society founded in the next decade, the 1830s, was essentially an outgrowth of those early efforts of this First American...